Re: [tied] Re: Ossetic fox

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The animal was named after the vegetable --both the vegetable and the animal were (supposedly) named because of their prominent tail (metaphorically in the case of radishes and other members of that family). Perhaps raposa is a taboo form. I can vaguely see your derivation from the IE root of wolf, but could you elaborate a bit more on how you derived it?

Gordon Barlow <barlow@...> wrote:

But ruvas, raev, etc are perfectly compatible with dialectal variants of English wo(l)f, pronounced woof.  With respect, the idea of calling an animal after a vegetable because of its tail is not plausible.  So I suggest any relationship with radishes is unlikely.

 

Gordon Barlow

Posted by: "Rick McCallister" gabaroo6958@ yahoo.com   gabaroo6958

 

Interesting --I believe Old Spanish was raposa, rapaz but this, I think is somehow related to words for roots such as rábano ¨radish¨¨, etc. because of the tail. What is the etymology of the words below?

tgpedersen <tgpedersen@... com> wrote:

Ossetic ruvas "fox"
Danish ræv, Sw räv etc "fox"
Proto-Finno- Ugric *repä-c´ "fox"

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